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From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/06/03
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"Pete" <tyrone@nowhere.org> wrote in message
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>     I see your point. But suppose in Java, I have
> Srting ar[] = new String[] { "have", "a", "good", "day" };
> // assume some processing.
> ar[2] = "junk";
>
> I think the Ada way to do this would be much more complicated. I may be
> wrong, can this be done so simply in Ada *without having to create new
> types, or making function calls*? If so, I am interested in seeing how to
do
> this.

Does "new" count as a function call?